Last month, the world lost a great visionary and technological genius. Steve Jobs, of Apple fame, died way before his time, at the age of 56, of complications due to pancreatic cancer. This tragic story has of course been floating around media sources of all sorts, however, in our sphere of holistic nutrition and alternative…
Myth Busting
I Will Not Be Pinkwashed: Why I Do Not Support Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Pinkwashing America It’s October. And that means, it’s prime pink season. It’s national “Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” It’s that magical time of the year when shades of pale pink are plastered onto every product, every container, every conceivable gadget or gizmo that the Susan G. Komen Foundation can get their hands on. When that iconic…
Butter is NOT Fattening!
I seriously wanted to preface that with, “For the LAST time…” but, let’s be honest. This will not be the last time I preach about the wonders of one of nature’s most perfect and healthy foods. The wonderful substance still vilified even by well-meaning but misinformed doctors, nutritionists, and health-conscious consumers. It drives me absolutely…
The GAPS Diet: How Food Heals Autism
I hadn’t planned on blogging about GAPS until I actually started the diet myself, but I was so stirred and encouraged by a recent article from Dr. Mercola that I feel compelled to begin sharing my thoughts on this subject which I feel so passionately about. If you’re not already familiar, Dr. Mercola is a…
What’s In My Milk? Part Three: War
Given the striking differences between commercial milk you’ll find in the grocery store, and real, fresh milk which comes from a farm, the healthy choice between the two is obvious. We want to avoid processed dairy, which is filled with pus, antibiotics, and other chemicals — and instead choose raw milk teeming with all those…
My Beef with the EWG’s Meat Eater’s Guide
The Environmental Working Group wants you to eat less meat. Why? To save the planet, of course! The EWG believes that meat production leads to some major environmental health issues, such as water and soil pollution, greenhouse gases, and a hefty carbon footprint. Their new Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change and Health says…
What’s In My Milk? Part Two: Real (Raw) Milk
Last week we discussed how real dairy doesn’t come from abused cows in CAFO’s, with repulsively giant, drugged-up udders, seeping pus and antibiotics into the milk. So, where does real milk come from, then? Responsible farmers know that the cow is an herbivore, designed to live on grass. A real dairy farmer would never feed…
What’s In My Milk? Part One: Industrialized Dairy
Got $23 million dollars a year to spend on celebrity endorsements and a national ad campaign? The dairy industry does! Commercial dairy farmers Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are surely, and not-so-slowly, monopolizing the world of milk. Straight from the cow’s mouth: There were 65,000 milk cow operations in 2009 compared to 97,460 in 2001, a…
$93.38 Worth of Protein Powder… In the Trash
This sucks. But I have to do it. I bought these large, expensive jugs of hyper-processed protein particles and diet supplement powders at the end of last year, as a part of a nearly life-long effort to gain weight. And today, I am dumping them out in the trash. Oh, you read that right, by…
Why I Literally Cannot Stomach Buying CAFO Anymore
This past holiday weekend, at a seemingly innocent celebratory social gathering with friends at the beach, something awful happened to PH and I. Stomach-turningly, gut-disruptingly, immune-compromisingly…awful. We each partook of a completely normal, barbecued rib eye steak bought at the supermarket. It was…gritty. Chewy. Stringy. With end notes of environmental pollution and sulfuric gas. It…